Word: czechoslovakia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were made last week in Paris with President Doumergue of France presiding. The U. S. plays Canada first, Japan to meet the winner. England plays Poland. France, the cup holder, waits until the challenge round. Other pairings, as usual, have a musical comedy aspect: Mexico v. Cuba, Austria v. Czechoslovakia, Belgium v. Rumania, Denmark v. Chile, Greece v. Jugoslavia, Norway v. Hungary, Monaco v. Switzerland, Finland v. Egypt, Holland v. Portugal, Germany v. Spain, Ireland v. Italy, Sweden v. South Africa...
Thus by a finely drawn and probably unique distinction the highest executive office in Czechoslovakia is held in trust for a sick...
...continuous and adept has been the publicity of Czechoslovakia's two great men that few foreigners realize there is a third. Everyone has heard just praise of President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk. Everyone is conscious of Foreign Minister Dr. Eduard Benes. But only the most alert can name the "Mystery Man" who has been Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia during the past six years. Beholding him one first notes his extraordinary pallor, then the round bald head, large mouth, short wide nose, piercing eyes, and dark overhanging brows. Such is Antonin Svehla...
Reason: while Masaryk and Benes were working for Czechoslovak independence in Allied countries, during the War, Svehla remained in what now is Czechoslovakia but then was Austria, superintending from within the struggle for independence which Masaryk and Benes carried on from without. Such a man deserves the highest, most exceptional honor ? which he received last week. Always close-mouthed and secretive, Dr. Svehla probably was glad that the world press almost totally ignored his passing, last week...
...Katanga, which manufactures 90% of the world's radium under Belgian Government control, was restricting that valuable metal's production. The Belgian pitchblende mines, whence the related radium, polonium and lead are refined, are at Katanga, Belgian Congo. Those mines have far outdistanced the Jackinov mines in Czechoslovakia where Becquerel and the Curies got their first pitchblende supplies. Other, but at present little used, sources of radium are autunite deposits in Portugal, betafite deposits in Madagascar, carnotite deposits in Colorado and Australia. These sources might be worked intensively if the British M. P.'s asseverations are true...